Ah jeez, Mr. Shithead is fucking around with his charts again.

Health update: I think the baby is 100% again! His last problem has been a slight fever the past couple days, but the baby tylenol finally kicked in last night while we were watching the absolute last The Biggest Loser show (man, have they stretched that out) and suddenly the little guy was back to his usual happy self. He's also back to milk-based formula and solids, and the poop is looking fine. I'm around 80-90% recovered. I've got my regular appetite back. The poop ain't fine, but it's getting there. It's getting better everyday.

Weather update: gorgeous!

Trading update: I'll update this tonite. Got some errands to run and some serious sunshine to catch.

Okay, I'm back. Great news! I went out to Staples and finally got a new cheapass keyboard to replace my old broken cheapass one. I wised up this time and splurged for the $12.99 one, though they're still selling the $9.99 one. Never again. You get what you pay for. This new one has all these fancy buttons on top, including a big one that I just learned actually shuts down the computer. Anyway, if you see typos now, those are actually mine, and not the old busted keyboard.

I was also a good citizen and brought 9 months of Diet Coke cans and Beechnut baby food bottles to the recycling center. You'd be shocked to know how much space that stuff takes. You'll also be shocked to learn I got a whopping $2.85 for it. Gotta admit it was a good feeling getting paid. In cash, to boot. More than I've made all week so far.

Last thing I did was get a haircut. That was 10 months of hair I accumulated. My hair was nearly as old as my baby. I went from Meet The Beatles to Abbey Road hairwise so I got it all clipped off.

All righty, enough of all that. I fugged up with my Sierra Chart upgrade again. This new version 59 looked too good to pass up. WTF, who am I kidding? I do upgrades as soon as I find out about them. None of that pansy "let's wait awhile and let the other suckers discover all the bugs" shit for me. I WANT TO EXPERIENCE THE BUGS FIRSTHAND. So this new version comes with its own playback feature, and moveable trendlines. I haven't done playback since before Christmas. My excuse is that for some reason, Sierra PB with BT uses 100% resources on my computer. It's true. But it's not like I'm afraid my motherboard is going to get fried or anything. I just got to the point where I got sick of playbacks. This v59 playback thing doesn't look too bad though. I'm not sure if I can sync it to do a few charts simultaneously, and I'm pretty sure BT won't work with it, but I'm determined to give it a good whirl.

Anyway, in my spirit of "getting a lot of shit done" that sick people are determined to do once they start feeling better, I also decided to clean up my hard drive of useless files. I had a bunch of useless stuff in my Sierra folder with all the indicators and old data I collected over the past few months. So I just started deleting stuff except for my current stuff. Unfortunately, I trashed my current chart study, so I'm back to the Buffy b-line charts. Actually, I liked that chart. I spent the day playing with them, adding those CCIFibs and kiwi's barplus thing and the Fisher Transform.

I went back to paper yesterday, because I still felt like crap and only had 4 hours of sleep going into the open. My sleep schedule got all screwy over the weekend because we had two birthday parties to attend, one at night on Friday and one early afternoon on Monday and I just slept in between. Anyway, I just wasn't into yesterday and it was a paper nightmare. I think I lost 10 or 11 in a row. I couldn't spot a winning pattern for my life, and it honestly felt like I back to square one. That feeling crept into today, though physically I was much better. So I stayed on paper and things fell more back into place with 8 wins/2 losses on the YM. That was encouraging knowing the majority of the day was tightly wound around the pivot and pretty tough, and I was doing a great job fucking around with the charts and not paying attention.

My concentration (or severe lack of it) is a real problem. I've got a program called eyeQ that I've been meaning to try out to increase my screen reading speed, focus, memory, concentration and all that. Hell, Pam Dawber is the spokesperson for it, so you know it's gotta be good. Unfortunately, I've had the program for a month and never installed it. I need to buy a program to first motivate me to install the eyeQ program. If Valerie Bertinelli did an infomercial for that, I'd buy that also, and all my problems would be solved.